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I managed to get it installed and working.

These are the steps I took,

1) I upgraded to CX 11.0.2
2) Created a new winxp bottle
3) Installed steam
4) Copied over the dota 2 beta folder from my PC to my bottle
5) Installed dota 2, it recognised that there were existing files already and didn't have to download anything
6) Set launch options -novid and -nod3d9ex

I launched the game and started up a co-op bot game. It loaded up into the game and I could play. There are a few problems atm which I haven't been able to resolve myself.

1) Lucida font for console
2) Graphics anomalies, invokers orbs for instance do not render properly
3) Halfway through my co-op game it crashed, I got an error message saying that dota 2 encountered a problem and needs to close

From what I found on WineHQ, at this link (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24458) it explains how to install it in normal Wine. I don't know how, but could this be adapted to work for this?

Alex Hashemi wrote:

From what I found on WineHQ, at this link
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24458)
it explains how to install it in normal Wine. I don't know how, but
could this be adapted to work for this?

Done, testing it now. If it works, I'll publish the installer to our site and CrossOver will just set this up for anyone automagically. Cheers!

Caron Wills wrote:

Done, testing it now. If it works, I'll publish the installer to
our site and CrossOver will just set this up for anyone
automagically. Cheers!

And the joke is on me... Valve has changed the way that all launch options are handled so doing this task is no longer trivial by any stretch of the imagination. So I shall do the next best thing and file a bug.

Very sorry, thought I would have a solution in minutes and instead have spent hours and I have nothing. My sincerest apologies.

I don't quite understand, what exactly is the problem?

Are you unable to turn off Pulse Audio (This seems to be the largest problem), or is there something else wrong?

Alex Hashemi wrote:

I don't quite understand, what exactly is the problem?

Are you unable to turn off Pulse Audio (This seems to be the largest
problem), or is there something else wrong?

Actually, the largest problem I see is getting the launch option "-nod3d9ex" to pass to Steam. Without it (at least for me), the game does not even start. Arguably, this is something the user should be able to set but the same goes for any of the other tweaks. My opinion is that making an install recipe that is supposed to set everything up for the user should indeed set everything up for the user. If I can get Steam to accept a Launch Option change the rest should not be much of problem.

Dota 2 works very well (every time I start it up I get sucked into a game... it is so addicting for me). I really, really like it and would love to hoist it as one of our "VIA" pages when it's released from beta... this would give it a little more spotlight... but the afore mentioned bug -which affects other Steam titles- could prevent that.

It is exciting that it works fine for you.
So how do you solve the pulseaudio problem from crossover for Linux?

ok so i have killed pulse audio and the game loads and plays fine but now I have no sound. How can I tell crossover to use ALSA?
UBUNTU 11.10 32bit nvidia based system

OK everything runs fine now with sound.